ENC 1101-B3 & B4: Writing for Discovery

When I write I mostly use the way of pathos. I rarely write in logos
with my paper because I don’t always use a lot of evidence to support my
writing. “Aristotle’s three appeals” are a very interesting approach to
writing styles and the way you form and shape your writing.

When I write even if it is about something that is less personal I tend to make it
more personal and add it my beliefs and values. I haven’t had a whole lot
of sample writing with logos and ethos because that has never been the
style of writing that I prefer. The images at the end of the chapter were
confusing to me at first because I didn’t realize that was what was
trying to be portrayed.

When I looked at those images I thought that it was a visual way to show what the end of the chapter was trying to make you understand pathos, logos and ethos by giving you another way to think about it. The sample essays with use of rhetorical analysis were kind of
hard for me to understand. Tova Johnson’s work was my in dept and easier
to follow than Brandon Barrett’s. If you take and relate you topic to the
three appeals it is easier for you to lay it out and understand the
paper.

Tova had an easier time with making her paper meet the quota that
she set up when she answered the three appeals. Brandon’s thesis was a
better in dept analysis but when he went to answer the three appeals it
was kind of unclear to where he wanted to take the paper. When I am
writing from now one I will try to vary it up with the way that I write.
Instead of always attempting pathos as my style and appeal I will try to
add in a little of each different appeal type.

The analysis of your paper in important in making you point come across better and more clear. This chapter in Ede’s book was one of the most formal and used a lot of
different learning style’s in one.